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International Harvester’s roots go back to the 1830s when Cyrus Hall Mc Cormick, an inventor from Virginia completed his effort to create a horse-drawn reaper for which we was granted a patent in 1834. The company has been developing and remaking ploughs, agricultural machinery and tractors ever since. Mc Cormick International Ltd manufactures a complete…

John Deere was born in 1804 in the USA.He founded Deere & Company one of the largest companies in the agricultural equipment manufacturing sector.History records him as an inventor. In 1837 he constructed the first commercially successful forged steel plough. It was ideally suited for the hard soil of the Midwest. By 1841, Deere was…

Fiat Spa Trattori is a company of the FIAT group founded in 1919. Founder of the company is Giovanni Agnelli. For many decades it had been established in Italy as the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery and tractors. In 1991, it cooperates with Ford - New Holland. In 1999, CNH Global group is established with…

In 1977 Deutz-Fahr is founded in Germany. It originates from KHD (Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG). Its name is the tractors brand name. Since 1995 it belongs to SDF group (Same-Deutz-Fahr). In Germany, the company produces the Agrotron -series 6 and series 7, in the Lauingen factory with a workforce of 700 people in 2013. In 1977, 80…

Landini Spa was founded in 1884 by Giovanni Landini to produce agricultural machinery. The company was established in Fabbrico at Reggio Emilia in Italy. In 1925 Giovvani begins construction of the first prototype tractor. Following his death, his sons took control of the company. At the end of 1925, the first original Landini tractor equipped…

Massey Fergyson Limited is an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment. The company was founded in 1953 following the merger of Massey Harris and Fergyson agricultural machinery manufacturing companies. In 1958 its name was finalised as Massey Fergyson. The first mass produced tractor was the gasoline powered Fergyson TE20. It was quickly replaced by the Diesel…

New Holland is a global agricultural machinery brand name. It produces tractors, combined harvesters, balers, sprayers, forage harvesters, seeding equipment, grape harvesters and a wide range of earthmoving and construction machinery. Since 1999 New Holland is a trademark of CNH GLOBAL, whose shareholding majority belongs to Fiat Industrial. New Holland is based in Turin, Italy…

Valtra is mainly a Finnish company manufacturing tractors. Today, together with the companies Fendt, Massey Fergyson and Challenger are the four brands of AGCO Comporation. In 1979 η Volvo BM and Valmet formed a joint venture to manufacture tractors under the name Volvo BM - Valmet. In 2001 η Partek purchased Valmet and the tractors…